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• Boeing, BlackBerry Working on a Smartphone That Would 'Self-Destruct'

  20-12-2014 21:28
  It seems like something out of an old episode of Mission Impossible or Inspector Gadget—an ultra-secure phone that self destructs. But such a phone might be close to reality, courtesy of Boeing and BlackBerry.[ Slideshow: An In-Depth Look at the BlackBerry Classic ]According to Reuters (via Recode), Boeing and BlackBerry are currently jointly developing a super-secure smartphone geared toward governments and other groups or individuals who require high security standards. And if someone goe
  
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• North Korea wants joint probe into Sony hack, warns of consequences if not

  20-12-2014 17:45
  
  Denying responsibility for a major hack on Sony Pictures, North Korea has proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. but promised “serious consequences” should its offer be rejected.On Friday, the FBI said it had concluded North Korean responsibility because of several similarities in the malware code, the computer control network used and the software tools used against Sony and that used in previous attacks in South Korea that had been blamed on North Korea.North Korea’s Ministry of
  
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• The Hottest Wireless Technology is Now Sound!

  20-12-2014 13:01
  
  Using sound for transferring data is nothing new. In the 1940s, when IBM tried to solve the problem of how to use regular telephone lines to connect two computers, it figured out a way to convert data into sound, send the sound over the phone and then convert it back into data. (Yes, I'm talking about the modem.)
  The benefit of using sound for data transmission was that equipment to handle the process was widely available.
  In the wireless era, sound is still a great option for data transmiss
  
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• New Rancho Palos Verdes city manager says he won't yet resign from elected ... - The Daily Breeze

  20-12-2014 05:06
  
  New Rancho Palos Verdes city manager says he won't yet resign from elected ...
  The Daily Breeze
  The day before, Bill Widmer, a 59-year-old IT executive and recently re-elected City Council member in the affluent Silicon Valley town of Atherton, told that city's paper, The Almanac, that for now, he does not plan to leave his elected office and ...
  
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• Staples says hack may have compromised 1 million-plus payment cards

  20-12-2014 03:15
  
  The data breach at the Staples office-supply chain may have affected roughly 1.16 million payment cards as criminals deployed malware to point-of-sale systems at 115 stores, the company said Friday.The affected stores cover 35 states from California to Connecticut, according to a list Staples released Friday. The chain has more than 1,400 stores in the U.S.The malware, which allowed the theft of debit and credit card data, was removed in mid-September upon detection, Staples said. The retaile
  
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• Judge questions evidence on whether NSA spying is too broad

  20-12-2014 00:55
  
  A federal judge on Friday questioned the strength of a key lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the government’s Internet surveillance program known as “upstream” data collection.Judge Jeffrey White heard oral arguments by attorneys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the suit, and the government, during a hearing in a federal district court in Oakland, California. The EFF says its suit is the first challenge in public court to the government’s upstream data p
  
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